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Are IT developers the stupidest people on earth ?
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"Don't part with your illusions; when they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live" Mark TwainComment
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Originally posted by Cirrus View PostFancy IBM JCL is...
... Rexx“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostEr, not quite but I see where you're coming from. REXX is a scripting language which you can use to create, and in some cases, replace JCL. JCL has changed a lot of the past few years and I suspect that people who worked with it 20 years ago wouldn't fully recognise a lot of JCL now..."I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
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Originally posted by cojak View Post+1
ARM templates are nothing more than fancy IBM JCL.Comment
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Originally posted by europetractor View PostI can't think of any other profession where people are actively working to put themselves out of work by automating their job. IT workers need a world union.Comment
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Originally posted by tomtomagain View PostIn what way are IT developers automating their jobs? They are automating everyone else's.
I've loved programming since I was a teenager in the 80s and now approaching middle age I find that the demand and rates for developers are increasing, contrary to what I believed would happen 10 years ago.
Programming/developing at the top level is an art as well as a science and it won't be automated any time soon, not in the next 10 years anyway. Of course I may be wrong about that.Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by sasguru View Post^^ this.
I've loved programming since I was a teenager in the 80s and now approaching middle age I find that the demand and rates for developers are increasing, contrary to what I believed would happen 10 years ago.
Programming/developing at the top level is an art as well as a science and it won't be automated any time soon, not in the next 10 years anyway. Of course I may be wrong about that.
If you take five minutes to think about the enormous advances over the last 3 decades in coding and development it's mindblowing. The changes in languages, libraries, development techniques, approaches and "best practice" is amazing. A competent programmer today is vastly more efficient ( efficient == being able to deliver a system to meet a customer requirement ) than a competent programmer of 30 years ago simply because of the advances in the dev. tools available to her.
Some people think it's getting easier. But that forgets the fact that we're tackling bigger, more complicated problems. I expect the development teams working for Tesla, Apple & Google et al on self-driving cars don't think it's getting easier.
I believe we've only just started. Humans have been building bridges for 3000 years. We've only been coding for 60.
Here's to the next 30 years of coding!Comment
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